Good point about the adaptivity. Yeah the omission of any examples with themes really shows the silo’d nature of Microsoft, and makes it look like the whole pro

Good point about the adaptivity. Yeah the omission of any examples with themes really shows the silo’d nature of Microsoft, and makes it look like the whole project was low effort and built by people who aren’t even designers and were just building to some abstract spec. If Microsoft really valued design they would build complete UI frameworks including visual style and then hand them to the respective teams (more wood behind fewer arrows), rather than making it a shared effort where no one team has made informed decisions about the whole thing end-to-end. I’m a bit spoiled right now because I’m deep in Apple’s HIG and it’s just on an entirely different plane of competence and thoughtfulness, whereas this looks like the little leagues.